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Maggie Nelson Exposes Freedom’s Paradoxes
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There’s a GameStop Book, Already
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The Water Man [DVD]
Author: Oyelowo, David, film director, actor. Needell, Emma, screenwriter. Winfrey, Oprah, executive producer. Chavis, Lonnie, actor. Miller, Amiah, 2004- actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: WATER
Format: Video disc
Summary: Gunner's mother is very ill, but he believes a local legend about "the Water Man" who knows how to live forever, so he and a mysterious girl named Jo set off into the Wild Horse forest in order to hunt down the legend. The deeper the go into the woods, it becomes more strange and more dangerous, but Gunner's father is coming after them and will stop at nothing to rescue his son.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: WATER
Format: Video disc
Summary: Gunner's mother is very ill, but he believes a local legend about "the Water Man" who knows how to live forever, so he and a mysterious girl named Jo set off into the Wild Horse forest in order to hunt down the legend. The deeper the go into the woods, it becomes more strange and more dangerous, but Gunner's father is coming after them and will stop at nothing to rescue his son.
Riders of justice [DVD] = Retfærdighedens ryttere
Author: Jensen, Anders Thomas, 1972- film director, screenwriter. Jørgensen, Sisse Graum, film producer. Hybschmann, Sidsel, film producer. Mikkelsen, Mads, 1965- actor. Kaas, Nikolaj Lie, 1973- actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: RIDERS DANISH
Format: Video disc
Summary: After his wife dies in a terrible train accident, Markus discovers she might have been a random victim of a carefully orchestrated assassination. Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: RIDERS DANISH
Format: Video disc
Summary: After his wife dies in a terrible train accident, Markus discovers she might have been a random victim of a carefully orchestrated assassination. Markus, who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
American traitor [DVD] : the trial of Axis Sally
Author: Polish, Michael, screenwriter, film director. Owen, Vance, 1964- screenwriter. Hicks, Darryl, screenwriter. Williams, Meadow, 1966- actor. Pacino, Al, 1940- actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: DRAMA AMERICAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: After being forced by the Nazis to sing defeatist war propaganda, Mildred Gillars is captured by American authorities and sent to trial. After agreeing to defend Mildred Gillars, lawyer James Laughlin struggles to redeem her reputation.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: DRAMA AMERICAN
Format: Video disc
Summary: After being forced by the Nazis to sing defeatist war propaganda, Mildred Gillars is captured by American authorities and sent to trial. After agreeing to defend Mildred Gillars, lawyer James Laughlin struggles to redeem her reputation.
The house next door [DVD] : Meet the Blacks 2
Author: Taylor, Roxanne Avent, film producer. McIntosh, Shannon, film producer. Taylor, Deon, film director, film producer, screenwriter. Epps, Mike, actor, film producer. Harrell, Corey, screenwriter
Published: 2021
Call Number: HOUSE
Format: Video disc
Summary: When best-selling author Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home, he must team up with oddball neighbors to do battle with a pimp, who may or may not be an actual vampire.
Published: 2021
Call Number: HOUSE
Format: Video disc
Summary: When best-selling author Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home, he must team up with oddball neighbors to do battle with a pimp, who may or may not be an actual vampire.
The misfits [DVD]
Author: Harlin, Renny, film director. Roth, Tim, actor. Brosnan, Pierce, actor. Chung, Jamie, 1983- actor. Corfield, Hermione, 1993- actor.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: ACTION MISFITS
Format: Video disc
Summary: A band of modern-day Robin Hoods recruits a renowned thief to help steal millions in gold bars stashed underneath one of the world's most secure prisons.
Published: 2021 2020
Call Number: ACTION MISFITS
Format: Video disc
Summary: A band of modern-day Robin Hoods recruits a renowned thief to help steal millions in gold bars stashed underneath one of the world's most secure prisons.
Occupation: Rainfall [DVD]
Author: Sparke, Luke, screenwriter, film director. Imrie, Carly, film producer. Imrie, Carmel, film producer. Ewing, Dan, 1985- actor. Morrison, Temuera, actor.
Published: 2021
Call Number: OCCUPATI
Format: Video disc
Summary: Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors fight back in a desperate ground war. While casualties mount by the day, the resistance, along with some unexpected allies, uncovers a plot that could bring the war to a decisive end.
Published: 2021
Call Number: OCCUPATI
Format: Video disc
Summary: Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors fight back in a desperate ground war. While casualties mount by the day, the resistance, along with some unexpected allies, uncovers a plot that could bring the war to a decisive end.
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